Prime minister Hoss on telecom role in Lebanon

Prime Minister Salim Hoss has inaugurated the Second Arab-International Telecom meeting at the Summerland Hotel, with Information Minister, Anwar Khalil, Tele-communications' Minister, Isam Nu'man, Syrian Counterpart, Mohammed Radwan Mardini, head of the Syrian-Lebanese Supreme Council, Nasri Khouri, Arab League Representative, Jamal Suleiman, and Arab-International Syndicated Telecom representatives. The meeting is jointly organized by the Business and Finance Institute and Telecom Ministry.

In his inaugural speech, Prime Minister Hoss stressed that Lebanon would be unable to assume its aspired for regional role unless its government run and private telecom sectors are developed in accordance with scientific up-to-date standards. He pointed that the government continues to accord the Telecom sector its utmost care and attention along with its relentless work to reactivate the country's public services' and utilities' sector, the official Lebanese news agency reported.

Taking the word, Tele-communications' Minister, Isam Nu'man, described the telecom system as being the central nerve of the new Lebanese economy. In his word, Arab League Representative, engineer Jamal Suleiman, said that the league would do all it could to consolidate Arab cooperation so that we may reach a degree of complementarity in the field of Telecommunications. Head of the Lebanese Business and Finance Consortium, Raouf Abu Ziki, stressed, in his word, that the mere fact of holding this meeting in the Lebanese capital testified to the utter failure of Israel's aggression. He thanked the Lebanese President and the Prime Minister for their efforts in developing the telecom system and listed five conditions for a successful start.